Welcome to Tilers Community ® Group of Websites, Tilers and Tiles and all things between.
It’s Dan here from TilersForums.com, the Tilers Community I’ve ran since April 2006. I first acquired the domain to do some testing to see what sort of things Google will rank on page 1 for “Tilers Community”. But then I got a load of shit from one of the owners. Said ‘he’s done more than I’ll ever do’. Don’t think he knows me well then. Weird isn’t it how two communities don’t look past their own for a few years in their case, a couple of decades ours.
That said, I’ll now be showing you why Tilers Community can NOT be registered as a trademark and never will be. Same as Tilers Forums. The issue is the second word. They’re not something you can own. A forum by definition is open discussion, you can’t own that. And a community is built up (on or offline) as many things that come together.
So can Tilers Community be registered as a mark?
So Patent.Gov will tell you eff off. And I think they did with them, so they decided to register a logo that was so vague and they’ve only marked it for advertising. So not sales and the likes. Just advertising it. So they’ve missed a trick there bigtime. Or you do what others would do in this case and use TM instead. So an unofficial or unregistered trademark would use such thing.
Then one lad who threw a load of abuse my way said his Facebook Stats are copyright to them and they own them.
Oh my. Welcome to the world of Facebook lads. You don’t own shit you post on there that’s facebook 101. They own everything and can take anything away at any time.
And then competitor groups and pages can advertise their own same page or group type and pay facebook to place ads all over the shop.
Well, that’s what they want one to do anyhow. It’s not something I ever do. I don’t buy Google, Meta, X or any other CPM’s as they are now, not CPC’s. My job is online marketing and I’ve done it during the dotcom boom and still do it now so I’ll use other clever ways to grow some facebook pages as I do.
So this guy with his couple of pages is top guy is he?
I’ve got a staffs speed cams page with 20k users, that’s for one County. Staffordshire. We share mobile speed cam locations to slow the traffic down, prevent scam fines. And this newbie comes at me saying his 6k users I’ll never be able to get. PMSL!!!
And let’s point something out here, for a group, you can all add fellow “friends” into the group. So 1000 people added 6. Or 500 people added 12.
it’s not many on the rungs of exponential growing of groups to be growing one for years and only have 6k users. And lets be clear again, facebooks own data shows it when doing a group search as having 10 posts a day. The rest are comments on other comments.
So I’ll continue to do some testing with my Tilers Community ® page I’ve setup, and many other pages. And once I’ve completed with the TilersForums.com V2.0 changes I’ve been working on, I’ll get onto some pages in my free time and I’ll show you how you grow one quickly. 😉
Oh forgot to say, and their main user Hoffman, said I looked a bit Downs!!! – Made a list of the companies still advertising with them and I wont be working with them moving forward on anything at all. And I’ll call them out for advertising on a site where the owner is saying such things. We have a member on our forum who has a child with special needs and he hit the roof. He’s one of the few master tilers left in the country after Phil Hobson R.i.P sadly passed. And he’s well and truly gutted. That’s a low blow Hoffman.
Peace
Dan (aka G00gl3r – since 1999, aka Forum Dan, the guy with many many forums and many many FB groups)